News of note for readers: August 6, 2024

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days!

• The inaugural Inside Prize has gone to Imani Perry's South to America (Literary Hub)

• Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction (The Guardian) 

• Alexander Waugh, literary scion of a literary dynasty, dies at sixty (The New York Times) 

• Barbara Howar, memoirist of Washington society, dies at eighty-nine (The New York Times)

• Britney Spears's memoir will be made into a movie (Entertainment Weekly) 

• Keanu Reeves will star in a Broadway production of Waiting for Godot (The Hollywood Reporter)